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The recipient of the 2002
Photo Urbanism fellowship
was the collaborative team
of Diane Cook and Len Jenshel,
two of America's foremost landscape photographers. Cook and Jenshel
photographed — in black & white
and color — roughly 600 miles of waterfront that make
up the edge of New York City. It was the photographers'
intention to document and interpret the waterfront areas
of public access, particularly the confluence and counterpoint
of recreation and commerce, development and conservation,
nature and architecture.
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The project concluded with a public presentation at the
Drawing Center in New York City. The photographers presented
and discussed their project through a slide show and display
of photographs. Following their presentation, Phillip Lopate,
author of a book on the New York City waterfront, used the
photographs as a springboard to speak about the past, present,
and future of the waterfront.
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| About
the Photo Urbanism Program |
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| Photography
plays an integral role in the examination,
discussion, and re-imagining of New York
City's public spaces. Photo Urbanism
supports this role by offering photography fellowships
to produce a discrete body of work that explores particular qualities of New York City's natural and
built environment. The first five Photo Urbanism projects, each
focusing on a different aspect of New
York City's public realm, will form a catalog
the city's evolving character and
will be published collectively
at the program's conclusion. |
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2002, the first fellowship went
to Diane Cook and Len Jenshel for The
Edge of New York, an exploration
of the city's waterfront. The second
fellowship was awarded to Jonathan Smith
in 2004 for The
Bridge Project. Travis Roozée
received the third award in 2005 for Portrait of Jamaica Bay. In 2007, the fourth fellowship went to Gail Albert Halaban for her project, Out My Window.
Kramer O'Neill was awarded the fifth fellowship in 2009 for Same Time Every Day.
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